Suling and Seruling

Suling 
The flute is a musical instrument of the family of wind instruments made of wood or bamboo. Characterized by soft flute sounds and can be combined with other musical instruments as well.
 

Modern flute to the experts generally made of silver, gold or a mixture of both. While the flute for students generally made of nickel-silver, or silver plated metal.Ditalakan standard concert flute in C and has a range of 3 octaves tone starting from middle C. However, in some distilled to the experts there are additional key to achieving the tone B below middle C. This means that the flute is a musical instrument orchestra is high, only the higher piccolo than the flute. Piccolo is a small flute ditalakan one octave higher than standard concert flute. Piccolo is also commonly used in the orchestra.Modern concert flute has many choices. B-flat thumb key (invented and pioneered by Briccialdi) standards. B foot joint, however, is an extra option to model the upper middle and professional.Open-holed flute, also commonly called the French Flute (where some of the key has a hole in the middle so that the players have to shut it down with his finger) common in the concert-level players. However, some flute players (especially the students, and even some experts) chose closed-hole plateau keys. Students generally use temporary cover to seal the hole until they had mastered the perfect finger placement.Some people believe that open-hole keys are able to produce louder and more clearly in low tones.Distilled before the concert at Classical Era (1750) using flute Block (shown above), whereas in the prior Era Romance (Classical Era 1750-1820) made Flute Albert (black wood decay and fitted valve), and since the Romantic Era (1820) using Boehm flute (black wood or metal fitted valves all of which is also called Boehm flute, Carl Boehm system), or distilled alone.Special music keroncong in Indonesia on Stambul Era (1880-1920) using distilled Albert, and the Eternal Keroncong Era (1920-1960) has been using distilled Bohm.

Seruling

The flute is a kind of instrument that is blown Muzik. He had done instead of the reed when the first one. But now there Modern flutes are done instead of aluminum metals and plastics. How to play it is to blow. But the correct way to let blow the flute sounds good.

The flute is a popular wind instruments in China, made ​​of bamboo.

Flute although small and simple, but it was historic 7,000 years. Approximately 4500 years ago, a flute made ​​of bone that had been changed to made ​​of bamboo. At the time of Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty, 1st century BC, the flute is quite an important position in the music of percussion and brass at that time. Until the 10th century, in line with the rise of the ballad poetry of the Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, the flute became a major instrument to accompany poems and sang ballads. Being in the opera and folk ballads as well as a small number of ethnic minority operas, flute is also an instrument that can not be less.

  The flute has a very strong power of expression, but can play the rhythm of long and high, may also expresses a broad style and played a merry waltz and a melodious tune.

Flute the southern Chinese-style clear, soft, round and sweet lilting.

Flute popular in northern China have a bright color and high voice and uninhibited style.

The Difference
if suling blown from the top while seruling blown by placing it horizontally from the mouth, is the mention in the English language as the flute, but in fact suling and seruling have some differences.

Reference:
http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suling
http://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seruling
http://indonesian.cri.cn/chinaabc/chapter23/chapter230308.htm